Rick Kogan: 16-inch softball players win the fight to continue playing games at Chicago's Grant Park fields
by Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune
Apr 20, 2023
4 minutes
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CHICAGO — Grant Park was born with the rather dull name of Lake Park and is informally called Chicago’s “front yard.” But by any name, there’s not a finer urban park around and it has been the site of many joys, triumphs and troubles.
On the dark side, I can see the massive mess and violent melee that took place there during the 1968 Democratic convention.
On the sunny side, I give you 16-inch softball, which is played with bats and Clincher softballs and has been a summer joy for so many players and fans in the park for nearly a century.
In the dark depths of late February, Don DeBat read a disturbing
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